Mr. de la Renta, at least, showed a more confident hand, creating a Moorish backdrop for gold matelassé jeans and jackets that sparkled with uptown rightness and those fantasy numbers he does with a kind of coy self-referencing.
Re "Building on Faith," by Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam who plans a community center near ground zero (Op-Ed, Sept. 8): We should not conflate the right to build the Islamic center in Lower Manhattan with the rightness of doing so.
Howard Taubman, writing about "Virginia Woolf" in The New York Times, praised Mr. Grizzard's ability to shift "from geniality to intensity with shattering rightness".
It was her show, but she integrated herself into the production with dramatic rightness and bowed to the corps at the curtain calls.
One day I noticed in the grass, though, a rosetta ofsunflower seedlings-each topped with a little leaf bow tie-whichwere almost immediately no longer seedlings; which were daily,miraculously, larger and larger-until there they loomed, modestlyhuge-headed, fantastic with a rightness I wanted to call beauty.
When the argument is thus formulated, there is no problematic bridge that needs to be introduced connecting the goodness and badness of states of affairs with the rightness and wrongness of actions.
They glorified the leader, claimed she was never wrong, equated supporting Objectivism with moral rightness, and allowed the Russian author to go about having affairs and destroying careers based on her own personal whims.
Organic is loaded with a sense of rightness, with a set of rules.
We have another example of rights versus rightness happening now, with the pastor of a church in Florida planning to burn Korans on the 9/11 anniversary.
